Charlottesville, VA — May 20, 2016 —- Dear Valued Customers:

RE: Acquisition of Cardinal Components

We are pleased to announce that Isotemp, a subsidiary of Taitien USA (http://www.taitien.com/), has acquired the assets Cardinal Components (http://www.cardinalxtal.com/). The acquisition was completed on April 8, 2016.

Taitien is a leading global manufacturer of frequency control products and offers a wide range of quartz crystals, oscillators, VCXOs, TCXOs, OCXOs, Precision Crystals and Thickness Monitor Crystals. The company is ISO 9001 and TS 16949 certified, with manufacturing, design and application engineering resources in Taiwan, China and The United States.

Taitien was founded in 1976, as one of the original manufacturers of the tuning fork crystals.  In the early 1990s, Taitien became a primary VCXO supplier major telecommunication companies. In the following years, Taitien invested significant resources into R&D, becoming one of the leading producers of surface mount oscillators with CMOS and LVPECL outputs.  Taitien is considered a top tier manufacturer of Frequency Control Products, offering leading edge solutions to its customers worldwide.

This acquisitions combined product offering will significantly enhance our programmable oscillator capabilities and allow us to provide a wider array of products. We will continue to offer the Cardinal Components product line. Business will continue as usual with the same communications channels. However final programing, logistics and accounting activities will be relocated Taitien USA’s subsidiary, Isotemp, in Charlottesville Virginia.

Contact Information:
Kory Stone
Director of Sales and Marketing
Kstone@pletronics.com
Taitien U.S.A. Inc.
19013 36th Ave W Lynnwood, WA 98036
Website: www.taitien.com